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Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, also known as Washington or D.C. or locally simply as the District, is the capital city and federal district of the United States. It is located on the east bank of the Potomac River, which forms its southwestern and southern border with the U.S. state of Virginia, and it shares a land border with the U.S. state of Maryland on its other sides. The city was named for George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, and the federal district is named after Columbia, the female personification of the nation. As the seat of the U.S. federal government and several international organizations, the city is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the U.S., with over 20 million annual visitors as of 2016.

The U.S. Constitution provides for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; the district is not a part of any U.S. state (nor is it one itself). The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of the capital district located along the Potomac River near the country's East Coast. The City of Washington was founded in 1791, and Congress held its first session there in 1800. In 1801, the territory, formerly part of Maryland and Virginia (including the settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria), officially became recognized as the federal district. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia, including the city of Alexandria; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the district. There have been efforts to make the city into a state since the 1880s, a movement that has gained momentum in recent years, and a statehood bill passed the House of Representatives in 2021.

Xiayi County, referred to as Li, known as Liyi in ancient times, is under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, known as "the land of Confucius in China". Located in the east of Henan Province, the joint of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, Yongcheng and Dangshan counties to the east, Yucheng County to the west, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province to the south, Shan County, Heze City, Shandong Province to the north, Longhai Railway and Lianghuo Expressway across Xiayi, it is the best investment city for the Central Plains to undertake the industrial transfer of the three major economic circles of "Yangtze River Delta", "Pearl River Delta" and "around Bohai Bay". As of September 2018, Xiayi County has jurisdiction over 24 townships and 731 administrative villages, with a total area of 1481 square kilometers and a total population of 1.2 million. Xiayi is the ancient capital of China, the ancestral land of China, and one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. There were people here as early as the Neolithic Age more than 5000 years ago
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